Studies on Steinschneider

Twenty-six articles, presented by Leicht (Jewish thought and philosophy, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) and Freudenthal (emeritus, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France), examine the life and work of Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) with the aim of moving beyond the view of Steinschneider as a "mere bibliographer" and to reveal further dimensions of his work and scientific personality, in particular his contributions to promoting the history of Jews in the development of mathematics, philology, natural history, medicine, and other disciplines. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reimund Leicht is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Thought and Philosophy and History of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on philosophy, science, astrology, and magic in ancient and medieval Judaism, and on the Christian Hebraist and Kabbalist Johannes Reuchlin. He is the author of Astrologumena Judaica: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der astrologischen Literatur der Juden (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris, France and, since 2010, a professor at the University of Geneva. He has written on the history of science in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, especially in Jewish cultures. His books include: Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance. Form and Soul, Heat and Pneuma (Oxford, 1995), Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, 2005) and the edited volumes: Studies on Gersonides - A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Leiden, 1992); (with S. Kottek), Melanges d'histoire de la medecine hebraique. Etudes choisies de la Revue de l'histoire de la medecine hebraique, 1948-1985 (Leiden, 2003); Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). He also is the editor of Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.